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2.17 It's the end of the episode; Original Airdate: 2-12-06
Topic Started: Jul 18 2009, 07:38 PM (15 Views)
oncetherewasaway	Jul 18 2009, 07:38 PM Post #1
McEditor Posts: 1,625 Group: .Grey Girls. Member #23 Joined: October 25, 2006	Writers Blog 2.17 It's the end of the episode (as we know it) Shonda Original Airdate: 2-12-06 So Dylan’s dead. And I have to admit, I’m a teeny bit relieved. Don’t get me wrong, I love Kyle Chandler. He was great as Dylan. Smart, funny, cute, and very much in charge. I was, in fact, a little bit in love with Dylan. Not as in love as I am with McDreamy or Burke but…you know, there were moments during the filming of the episodes when Dylan would be saying something bossy or helping Mer down the hall, pushing that gurney and being all bomb squad-y, moments that I was thinking, hey, maybe he doesn’t have to explode. But still I am relieved. Why? Well, I’m glad you asked. Here’s why: At the end of Act Five, there is a scene. Scene 52. I wrote this scene about fifteen minutes before I had to print out the script and hand it over to production. It reads as follows: INT. OR CORRIDOR -- CONTINUOUS Meredith leans her head out. Sees Dylan heading down the hall. She's just about to open her mouth... ...When the ammo explodes. When Dylan explodes. Fire, shattering glass. Meredith is thrown backwards. Okay, that’s…what? An eighth of a page? A sixteenth of a page? A tiny fraction of the script, right? The ammo explodes. Dylan explodes. I wrote those words and was actually ignorant enough of the horrors to come that I gave it to the production team and then slept the sleep of babies and angels for several nights in a row. The ammo explodes. Dylan explodes. Seriously? SERIOUSLY? All of the sudden, you find yourself in meetings with real live bomb squad guys and special effects guys and a very tense director and everyone is asking you things like “When you say, bloody rain…you actually want bloody rain or just like, some blood spatter?” And things like “When Dylan explodes, you wanna see chunks of Dylan or do you want like, a Dylan vapor?” These are thing I don’t want to think about. These are things that make my head hurt. The ammo explodes. Dylan explodes. It’s in the script. I wrote it. I know that. But I don’t want to think about Dylan chunks or bloody rain. I don’t want to think about it at all. I like to write things and have them happen. I like to keep myself in a kind of stalker-ish fog in which I believe my characters aren’t characters but actual people. It’s how I can write them. So when you ask me about Dylan chunks, my brain gets all twisty and shuts down. Because Dylan’s a person, a very real person to me and I love him and it’s not my fault he has to die and besides…yuck. But I’ve got Rob Corn on my ass. Rob Corn doesn’t care if I try to kick everyone out of my office when they bring up bloody rain or he doesn’t care if I try to pretend I can’t speak English when someone asks me about bloody chunks. Rob Corn is the producer on our show and it’s his job to make things happen and, if I am stupid enough to write Dylan explodes on a piece of paper, Rob Corn is damn well going to make sure that Dylan explodes. Behind his back, I like to call Rob Corn Bossy McBossy. It doesn’t sound affectionate here but in real life, it’s really sweet and kind. Trust me. Anyway, Bossy McBossy told me that we had to do tests so we could figure out how exactly Dylan explodes. Tests? Dylan explodes. What’s there to test? HA! I’m clearly an idiot. They built this model of Dylan’s body and one day I am herded out onto the back lot of the studio at the request of Bossy McBossy Rob Corn. Then I have to stand and watch as 20 or 30 really happy guys (testosterone is a powerful thing) position the model of Dylan just right and explode it into tiny little pieces. Twice. It is very loud. Wow. Dylan explodes. I’m all, “great, thanks, way to go, very manly.” And I turn to flee, prepared to head back to my office, happy that the Dylan explodes part of this is over so I can pay attention to the other stuff, the estrogen stuff, the fun stuff like Bailey and George giving birth and Derek describing that kiss to Meredith… …But Rob Corn raises an eyebrow and very gently says, “Uh, Shonda?” and I go really still with horror. Because I suddenly start to realize that a) that little test was only the beginning and B) that, for the rest of my life, I was going to regret ever typing the words Dylan explodes into my computer. They blew up test dummies. Tall dummies, dusty dummies, dummies with helmets, dummies without helmets. They blew up test dummies filled with fake blood. They blew up pieces of our set. They set off an explosion on the set of our operating rooms. They used stunt girls and stunt guys. Ellen let them pull her through the air. I think there were blue screens and green screens and animated pieces of debris and glass. The genius special effects guys added fire and smoke and things I can’t imagine but things that made it amazing. The sound guys added over 100 layers of sound elements so that, if you have HD and you watch with surround sound speakers, the explosion flies at you and passes you and swirls around you. Dylan explodes. The explosion was beautiful. Amazing work and truly impressive. I told everyone so. I can’t believe the amount of talent and energy that come together to make this show happen. But next time I get a Super Bowl and post-Super Bowl time slot, I’m gonna write something different. Something a bit easier. Something less time-consuming and expensive. And without so many bloody chunks. Dylan puts the ammo down and goes to have a sandwich. Enough about Dylan, may he rest in peace. I want to tell you about the difference between the first episode titled “It’s the End of the World” and the second episode “(As We Know It)”. I tried really hard to make the first episode very male and the second episode very female. I wanted them to fit together, like puzzle pieces. So that I could have two episodes about the same thing but that felt very different from one another. The first episode is all amped up energy, all naked girls and screaming and bombs and running down hallways and men saying things like “Get out of my OR.” The second episode is all long pauses. Long pauses and sitting and pushing out babies and kissing in linen closets and lots of discussion about how the hell this is all going to end. The first episode is what happens when danger strikes. The second episode is how we deal with danger when it strikes. The epicenter of this episode is the hallway/gurney scene. It’s the first scene I envisioned at all when thinking of these two episodes. I kept saying, “there needs to be this scene where Meredith and Cristina move down the hall really slowly with the ammo and Dylan and talk about boys.” And everyone kept nodding very politely with tight smiles the way they do when they are sure you have gone off the deep end. But Elizabeth Klaviter (she’s our super smart medical researcher) got on the phone with the bomb squad guys and the doctors and she got them to tell her how this would be possible. How I could get that gurney rolling so Meredith and Cristina could discuss the state of Cristina’s relationship. I needed that discussion which, for me, is really just a big old metaphor for how we deal with the tragedies in life. You’ve got your hand on a bomb but you don’t want to talk about it over and over, you don’t want to face it – so you talk about something else. Most of life is talking about something else. Plus, I found this really cool song by The Greenskeepers that I was dying to use. George is a big key to this episode. If you pay attention, he’s the one who serves as our witness. Through most of the episode, he wanders around, a bit bewildered. He’s the one who feels the most helpless. And then he has that moment with Hannah where she talks about the nature of cowardice, where she says that to do nothing is to be a coward. And he acts. He helps Bailey through giving birth. In the first episode, he’s fantasizing about what it would be like to see three women in the shower. In the second episode, he sees what three women in a shower is like in reality. Because, guys, women don’t just climb in a shower and start soaping each other up for no reason. Hello!? Life isn’t porn. Life is Meredith, bloody and battered, being gently cleaned off (chunks of Dylan) by her best friends. And so he leaves. Because what he is seeing is too intimate. The last thing I want to say about this episode has to do with Meredith. Because all she really wants is some kind of reason to live. I’ve heard a lot of talk about Meredith being whiny but the truth is, she’s got a mom with Alzheimer’s, no other family to speak of, and the man she loves is married. She’s pretty freaking lonely, people. She’s got a right to get her whine on. So, when she falters, when she doesn’t want to pull her hand out of Mr. Carlson, it’s partly because she’s got nothing to hang on to. As she says in the first episode, she needs a reason to go on, she needs some hope. Which is why she has to picture Derek to get through it. And at the end, when he shows up at her house (and he shows up just to see for himself that she is alive), she has to ask. She has to ask him about their last kiss because if she’s ever going to get out of that bed again and keep going, she needs a reason. She needs to know there’s someone out there for her. She needs some hope. And Derek (can Patrick Dempsey be any more amazing?) describes that last kiss, the last kiss they had as a happy couple, in such perfect detail that Meredith knows she’ll be okay. Because he wouldn’t remember that kiss so well if he didn’t love her. He couldn’t. It’s her sign. He loves her. Even if he can’t be with her. Even if he has a wife. He loves her, people. I told you, there’s hope. I can’t promise you anything because, like I said earlier, the characters are alive for me and thus, I can’t make them do anything against their will. But my fingers and toes are crossed for the Mer/Der love… Once again, thanks for watching the show. February 12, 2006 in Shonda Rhimes post 2.17 From Shonda: THE HARD TRUTH Okay, this is the last time I’m going to post on a non-episode night. I hate not posting because it is kind of addictive for me to write to you guys – I so love hearing what you say back. But I like to step back and hand over the blog to the next episode’s writer and this Sunday’s episode was written by the very talented, very funny Krista Vernoff with story by Mimi Schmir (also funny and talented) and…oh, you are NOT GOING TO BELIEVE HOW GOOD THE EPISODE IS, let me tell you what happens. It starts with…oh, yeah, the secrecy thing. The point is, I shouldn’t be posting right now. I have no right to be posting. But I had to. Because I’ve been reading your comments. And reading. And reading (you guys wrote a lot of comments). And I’m getting kind of worried about some of you. Not all of you. Just the really nice some of you who have sweet, kind, idealistic, optimistic, hopeful thoughts about Dylan. Brace yourselves. Ready? Dylan is dead, y’all. He’s really dead. He exploded. Into a LOT of tiny pieces. That stuff being washed off Meredith by Cristina and Izzie in the shower scene at the end? That was chunks of Dylan. In the lexicon of dead, that makes him super-dead. DEAD. May he rest in peace. I’m really sorry. I really am. February 18, 2006 in Shonda Rhimes 2.17 2.17



oncetherewasaway	Jul 18 2009, 07:39 PM Post #2
McEditor Posts: 1,625 Group: .Grey Girls. Member #23 Joined: October 25, 2006	Podcast 2.17 2.17



oncetherewasaway	Jul 18 2009, 07:39 PM Post #3
McEditor Posts: 1,625 Group: .Grey Girls. Member #23 Joined: October 25, 2006	Transcript - 2.17: (As We Know It) (Part 2) Original Airdate: 2/12/2006 Written by: Shonda Rhimes Directed by: Peter Horton (SGH) (Hallway) MVO: In hospitals they say you know. You know when you're going to die. (Bailey is standing in her patient room looking despondent) MVO: Some doctors say it's a look patients get in their eyes. (Bailey is doubled over in pain over her bed) MVO: Some say there's a scent. The smell of death. Something. There's just some kind of sixth sense. When the great beyond is heading for you. You feel it coming. (OR where Derek is still operating on Tucker) MVO: Whatever it is. It's creepy. (Addison is by herself in the doctor's lounge sitting on a couch looking very upset) MVO: Because if you know. What do you do about? Forget about the fact you're scared out of your mind. (Linen closet where it appears Alex and Izzie who are wrapped around one another, appearing naked, just finished having sex) MVO: If you knew this was your last day on Earth, how would you want to spend it? (Meredith's face looks panicked from the last episode after putting her hand in Mr. Carlson) (Richard is on the phone in an office behind the nurses' station. George is watching from the nurses' station looking concerned. Izzie and Alex come up to him, fixing up their clothes) Izzie: What's going on? George: Uh something happened in OR 3. Alex: What? George: I don't know. All I know is that Hannah the paramedic, she's missing. (Richard comes out of the office and walks by them) George: Chief, what's happened? Richard: Quiet board. A quiet board is what's happened. (He walks away) (Burke is entering OR 2 where Derek is operating on Tucker. Burke is wearing a flak jacket) Burke: Dr. Shepherd? Derek (a little surprised): Dr. Burke. Burke: How's it going? Derek: He's got a second bleed under the skull base. If I do what the textbooks say. He could lose the power of speech, herniate through the first craniotomy and die. Burke: What's your other option? Derek: Well if I do what I wanna do ... he could lose the power of speech, herniate through the first craniotomy and die. Burke: Well good luck with that. Derek: Thanks. (He turns to Burke) Is there something you want? Burke: You know it was really stupid of you not to evacuate? Derek (nods): You too. Burke: Yeah I know. Derek: We should consider a change in profession. Burke (half chuckles): Yes, we should. Derek: Now can you operate and remove the device from the guy? Burke: After the bomb squad is through assessing him, I'm going to try. Derek (nods): Gotta say I don't wanna be the guy that kills Bailey's husband. Burke: Well I don't wanna be the guy that kills us all. (They exchange a look) Dr. Shepherd. Derek: Dr. Burke. (Burke leaves. Notice he doesn't mention Meredith's new predicament) (OR 3 where Dylan is now slowly strapping a flak jacket up to Meredith. He is wearing one himself. Cristina is already wearing a flak jacket and squeezing the ambu bag) Dylan: You realize how stupid that was. Cristina: It was Mer. Incredibly stupid! Meredith (to Cristina): Ok you know when you don't need to be made fun of? Like when you've got your hand inside a body that's got a bomb in it and a stranger is Velcro-ing a flak jacket to your boobs. Cristina: Ok. Dylan: You've got a sense of irony. Meredith: Only when things are really ironic. (She turns to Cristina) ... I had a feeling. (Cristina shoots Meredith an 'omg I can't believe you'd say that' look. Meredith is referring to her 'might die feeling' she had that morning last episode) Dylan: What's that? Meredith: Nothing. (Burke is walking down the OR hall contemplatively. He stands for a moment before walking determinedly into OR 3. He walks in. Dylan is now standing against the table against the wall watching. Burke walks up to Cristina) Burke (in a low voice): Time for you to go. Cristina: No, I'm staying. Burke: There's nothing more you can do here. We've got it covered. (Cristina doesn't move) Cristina, this is not another clueless surgery. This ammo can go off at any time and kill everyone in this room. Do you get that? You can not be in here. Cristina: Do you think this is about surgery... Burke(interrupts more adamant than ever and whispers into her ear): Cristina I can not do this with you in here! I can not think! (Cristina just looks to Meredith) Meredith: We'll be fine. (Cristina just stares) It's ok. (Cristina nods and Burke takes over for her) Cristina (to Burke): You know in the movies how there's always the heroes and then there's the other guy? You know the guy who sees danger and runs in the opposite direction? Burke: Yes. Cristina: Be the other guy. (Meredith watches them teary-eyed. Cristina leaves the OR. Meredith takes a deep breath to calm herself) Meredith (to Dylan): So you have a plan right? (she nods to herself) You have a way to get me out of this right? (He just stares back at her) (Intern locker room where George, Alex and Izzie are sitting on the floor against the lockers) George: I feel colors are brighter. Does anyone feel like colors are brighter? My head hurts. Alex: It's adrenaline. You have the smell thing, cause I have like this crazy- Izzie (interrupts): Shut up! Alex: Are you ok? George: Of course she's not ok. How could she possibly be okay? You're insensitive. Alex: I'm not insensitive. Izzie: Would you two just shut up! Nobody cares if the blue is bluer or if you have super smelling powers! Meredith could die. Any minute she could just ... die. Actually stop living ... Dead ... Corpse ... (she starts giggling) I'm sorry. Sorry. God, I have really inappropriate reactions to this kind of stress. I'm sorry. (she gathers herself) Hold on. Mmm. George: Ok? Izzie: Yeah. Alex: Should we like, should we like do something? Call Meredith's family? George: We are Meredith's family. (Izzie stars giggling again) Izzie: I'm sorry. (She gets up and leaves chuckling. Alex gets up and follows her) George: We are Meredith's family. (Cristina is entering OR 2 all scrubbed up and flak jacket gone. Derek is still operating) Derek: This area has been evacuated Dr. Yang. Cristina: And somehow you're still here. Derek: I have to be here. You don't. Cristina: Yes I do. Derek (warningly): Dr. Yang. Cristina (adamant): Yes I do. Besides I guess you need a little company. (Derek resigned lets her put on a gown) Cristina: How's he doing? Derek: He's hanging in there. How's the paramedic Hannah doing? Cristina: Hannah? Derek: The girl with the bomb. Cristina: Oh, uh she's hanging in there too. (Floor with the busy people circling around. Addison is talking to Richard at the nurses' station) Addison: Calm down. Richard (upset): Calm down? I have an evacuated O.R. A bomb in a body cavy. A missing paramedic! An intern with her hand on the explosive! Two world class surgeons in harm's way! (George walks up behind them) A man on a table who may bleed out at any moment unless we move the bomb from his chest! And my favorite resident in labor who you're now telling me refuses to push! Really, calm down? You really want to say to me calm down? Addison: Ok don't calm down! George: Dr. Bailey is scared, sir. It's a day to be scared. Addison: She won't let me examine her but from what I can tell her contractions are 40 seconds apart and she's refusing to push. The baby could go into distress and if she doesn't come out of this and soon, then I'm gonna need an O.R to do an emergency C-section. Richard: I can't give you an O.R Addie! I don't have an O.R to give. Can't you convince her to push? Bailey's rational. Addison: She's not Bailey right now! She's a woman in labor whose husband is in surgery next to a bomb. Richard: So is yours. Addison: This is about Bailey. I need an O.R. Richard: I don't know what to tell you. Addison: Look Richard, we have about an hour to change Bailey's mind and then I'm going to need you to get me an O.R. Build me an O.R. Find me a helicopter to fly me to any O.R in the city. Otherwise instead of having a baby, she'll be losing one. (Addison walks off. Richard gives George a look and George scurries off. Richard sits down looking very stressed out. Nurse Debbie comes up to him) Debbie: Here's the blueprints you asked for Chief. (She hands Richard some rolled up blueprints) Richard: Ah, thanks. (Izzie is sitting down by herself in the linen closet looking upset. Alex comes in and sits down next to her. She smiles to herself) Izzie: I laugh at funerals. Alex: I don't go to funerals. (Izzie smiles. She looks at him and then starts kissing him) Alex: Izzie. Iz. (He looks at her and Izzie pulls away) Izzie (upset): I was jealous. I was jealous of Meredith and the surgery and I ... I was ... jealous and now ... I was jealous, Alex. (Alex leans and strokes Izzie's face. He leans in and kisses her) (OR 3 where Meredith is still there. Burke is sitting on a chair watching. Someone is squeezing the ambu bag but they're not shown clearly) Meredith: Is this the strangest thing that's ever happened in your OR? Burke (nods): I'd have to say that it is. Meredith: Good, cause I'm very competitive. Burke: All the best surgeons are. (Bailey's room where she's sitting on a chair in pain. George is standing in front of her) George: Dr. Montgomery-Shepherd just talked to the Chief. They're really worried about you. She's on the phone with Mercy West right now to see if they have any OR's available. Bailey: I need someone to drive me home. George: They're talking about doing an emergency C-section. Bailey: They can talk all they want. I'm not going to Mercy West. This baby is not coming out. I need a ride! I can't focus enough to drive myself. (her voice cracks) And Tucker ... I need a ride. George: You could lose it! You know this! Bailey: I told you already. I'm not having this baby until tomorrow. George: This baby could die before it's even born! Bailey (yells): Can you give me a ride home? George: Dr. Bailey... Bailey: Then get out! (George leaves the room) (Richard is looking over the blueprints of the OR floor in a conference room by himself. He takes of his glasses looking very concerned. Mindy comes to the door) Mindy: Is, is there any news? Richard: What? (he realizes it's Mindy) Oh I'm sorry Mrs. Carlson. Mindy: My husband. I was wondering if there was any news because you look so worried. And I heard this doctor saying that even though that girl's got her finger on the tear in his heart, that my husband is losing blood. Every second he's losing blood. Which means he could die? He could die? I ask because I know you'll me the truth because you look so worried. Richard: Mrs. Carlson ... (he's about to lie to her but changes his mind) Yes it's possible he could bleed out and die if we don't operate soon. Mindy (nods): Okay. Okay. Thank you for telling me the truth. (she starts to cry) I'll just ah, I'll just go wait over here. (She walks away) Richard (yells out): Look will someone give me an update! And where's the head of the bomb squad? (Richard puts his glasses back on and turns back to the blueprints. Dylan comes up to the door) Dylan: I'm right here and we're good to go. My team's in place. Dr. Burke is ready. Patient's in stable condition. We can have the bomb out in under 10 minutes if I'm not interrupted again. Richard: In the OR we put our patients under general anesthesia. Dylan: Yeah? Richard: That involves a steady flow of oxygen. (Dylan looks concerned suddenly and walks into the room) Dylan: Well can't you turn off the oxygen in my OR? Richard: I can and I have. But this is your OR (he points to the blueprints) This is the OR's floor main oxygen line. (It seems to be directly under the OR they're in) (Linen closet where Alex and Izzie are putting their clothes back on) Alex: It's gonna be okay. Izzie: You don't know that. Alex: It's just what you say. Izzie (half smiles): I know. (She moves to leave) Alex: Where you going? Izzie: I cant just.. I, I gotta do something to help. ... Thank you. For saying that it's going to be okay. Even if it's just what you say. (She leaves the linen closet) (Burke and Dylan are whispering to each other at the doorway of OR 3. Meredith watches) Meredith: Stop it. (They stop whispering) I'm not a patient. Dylan: What? Meredith: The two of you are looking at me the way we look at patients. Like I'm going to freak out at any minute. I'm not gonna freak out so whatever it is just tell me straight out. (Burke moves away from the door to stand directly in front of Meredith) Burke: The main oxygen line runs directly under this room. Meredith: Ok. (Burke just stares at her) Not ok. ... Well? I need one of you to tell me what this means exactly. Because I think I know what it means. But I tend to be glass half-empty these days so I won't trust what I think it means. Because what I think it means if the bomb were to explode over the oxygen line the whole hospital could blow up. ... And that's just crazy right? (Richard is standing out in front of the nurses' station looking even more stressed out. He's talking to a nurse) Richard: I need an answer on when they're gonna start moving. (The nurse nods and leaves. Izzie and Alex come up to him) Izzie: Chief. Richard: Look I'm busy! Izzie: I know. I know you're really very busy but if there's something, anything that we could do to help it would really would be very helpful. (Richard doesn't look so good and is breathing heavily) We need an assignment, sir. (Richard looks in really bad shape) Richard: Look, I need, I need... Izzie (concerned): Chief? (Richard is breathing really erratically) Izzie: He's pale and diaphoretic. Alex: Check his pulse. We need some help over here! Izzie: Come on let's move people! I'll get a wheelchair. (Richard backs against the wall and looks really panicked) Alex: I think he's having a heart attack. (OR 3. Dylan walks into the OR as well) Dylan: Meredith, all it means ... is that we have to move. Burke: Move? Dylan: That's right. We have to move. (he whispers to Burke) Now because I don't want to spend another second in this room. Meredith: Wait. I can't wiggle my fingers because we can't shift the ammo. And now you want to roll out the entire gurney? Dylan: Well that's our safest, safest option. (Dylan nods to Burke) Burke: So we move. Not a problem. We can do this. You handling this Grey? Meredith: I'm handling this. (Richard is lying down on a hospital bed in a patient room. Izzie and Alex are standing in there and there is another doctor also there checking Richard) Richard: So how's it look? Doctor: Well it's hard to say for sure. EKG is normal. (The doctor leaves the room) Alex: That's good news. Richard: That's it I'm getting up. Izzie: Sir! You should really wait until we get the blood work back. Richard: I'm not listening Stevens. (All of sudden Adele stands up and has been apparently sitting in the room the whole time) Adele: You can talk to me Dr. Stevens. Izzie (unsure): Um ... um ... okay. Your husband should really wait until we get the blood work back for confirmation. Richard: Okay! Out! Both of you! (Alex and Izzie nod and leave quickly. He moves to get up) Richard: I'm getting up. (Adele moves to stop him) Adele: You're going to have to body check me to do so. Richard: Adele, there is a bomb! Adele: I heard. (She tucks Richard in bed and looks over him comfortingly. Richard just looks resigned and kinda caged in) (Addison is sitting on an empty gurney in the middle of an empty hallway looking very upset. George walks up to her) George: Dr. Montgomery-Shepherd. What are we gonna do? I mean about Dr. Bailey. Can, can we drug her? Addison: Against her will? George: No. Well ... yes. (Addison looks annoyed) Can't we force her to push? If ah declare her temporarily insane. Addison (lets out a noise of frustration): Ah. You want me to declare Miranda Bailey, Miranda Bailey incompetent? Do you think that will help? Do you think that will make her more inclined, more comfortable giving birth? George: I don't know that's why... Addison (interrupts): Do you think I'm not doing everything I can to help her? I mean do you think I'm just out here because I don't know feel a little lazy, just need a little me time? George: I'm just asking. Addison (yells): Stop asking! Because no matter what you ask the answer is I don't know. I'm doing everything thing I can! Everything I can! Miranda Bailey's husband is in mortal danger. Actual mortal danger! And there's not a lot I can say to comfort her right now because there's not a lot that anybody can say to comfort me! I'm doing my best! Dr. Bailey is doing her best! And I need you to do your best! And I need it to better than standing here asking me the world's most stupidest question! I don't know O'Malley! (George nods slightly looking a little upset and he leaves) (George is sitting down on the stairs of a stairwell. He slams the door shut with his foot obviously frustrated. He hears a crying noise coming from a few flights of stairs below. He stands up and looks down) George: Hey. (The person looks up and it's Hannah the paramedic) You okay? (Hannah just looks down and George goes down the stairs to meet her) George (takes her hand): Wait, are you bleeding? Hannah: I, I think I fell ah... I was running um- and I fell. It's okay. George: Are you Hannah? Hannah (nods slightly, quiet): Yeah. (OR 2 where Derek is still operating on Tucker. Cristina turns around and is distracted by the activity happening outside) Derek: Micro-scissors Dr. Yang. (he notices her staring) What is so interesting out there? Cristina: I uh...I'll... (She rips of her gown and heads out the door) (OR hallway where Dylan, 2 other bomb squad guys and Meredith are moving the gurney with James very, very slowly) Dylan: You're doing great. Meredith: Let's go over it again. Dylan: The device is shaped like a rocket. About 8 inches long. We're going to have everything ready. Dr. Burke's team is going to be in place. My team is going to be in place. And I'm going to ask you to take the hand that you have in Mr. Carlson, wrap it around the device... Meredith (finishes for him): And pull it out. Dylan: Level. Pull it out while keeping it level. (The camera pans down to the floor where the floor is slightly elevated by a silver bar that stretches across it. They don't seem to realize that they're approaching this bar) Meredith: You know I don't like you very much. Dylan: I don't like you either. (Cristina comes up in the hallway) Cristina: What are you doing? Dylan (angry): Stop. Stop right where you are. (They stop moving) Cristina: What are you doing? Dylan: I thought Dr. Burke told you to leave. Meredith: We're moving to an O.R further away from the oxygen line. You know in case we blow up. Dylan: I distinctly remember him telling you to leave! Cristina: Where is he? Meredith: He's prepping the O.R. Cristina: Then he'll never know will he. Dylan: You stay over there. You stay over there! (He directs Cristina to stand a few feet away from them in an adjacent hallway but she can still see everything and they can see her) Dylan (to Meredith): You ready? (Meredith nods and they start wheeling past Cristina slowly) Meredith (to Cristina): Tell me something. Cristina: What? Meredith: Cristina, I have my hand on a bomb. I'm freaking out and most importantly I really have to pee. Tell me anything. Cristina: He told me he loved me. Last night. He thought I was sleeping but I heard him say it. Meredith: Burke loves you. Cristina: Yeah. (Dylan looks at Cristina and she notices) Mind your own business. Meredith: Burke loves you. Cristina: Okay everybody has problems. Meredith: Well are you going to say it back or- Cristina (interrupts): Of course not. He didn't say it to me. He said to the sleeping me. Reciprocity is not required. Besides he might blow up. Meredith: Excellent point. (All of sudden they hit the metal bar across the floor and the whole gurney bangs to a stop) Dylan: All right everybody. Let's keep placing one foot in front of the other. Nice and slow. Alright Meredith we're almost there. Meredith (closes her eyes): Okay. Dylan: We're almost there. Nice and Easy. You ready? Meredith (nods): Yeah. Dylan: Alright let's go. Nice and slow. (They move the gurney slowly over the bar on the floor and continue on) Cristina: You had to say you were going to die today. Meredith (shrugs): I told you. (The Pit where George is sitting with Hannah cleaning up her hand) George: It's not to deep but, you are going to need a couple of stitches. (Hannah nods) Hannah, uh is there someone you'd like me to call? Family or maybe friends? Hannah (shakes her head): No. ... That doctor ... George: Dr. Grey. Meredith. Hannah (nods): Is she? George: She's still there. Hannah: So she's still alive. George: She's alive. Hannah (sighs in relief): She's still alive. (She looks upset) George: Dr. Milton shouldn't have left you. He's a coward. Hannah: I'm a coward. George: No. Hannah: I ran away. ... You think you're going to be different. You think you're gonna be the kind of person who stays and does something. (she shakes her head) You know a good man in a storm. I'm a paramedic. I'm supposed to stay and do something. I'm not supposed to run away. I'm not supposed to hide under the stairs cause I left two people to die. I'm supposed to stay and do something. I ran away. (Alex is entering through a door into another floor of the hospital. He stops at a nurses' station where Izzie is standing) Alex: Well blood work's back. The Chief had an anxiety attack. (he sighs) Who's gonna tell him? Izzie: Um, I gave you sex in a linen closet. You tell him. Alex (nods): Fair enough. (He walks off and Izzie smiles) (Bailey's room where Bailey is lying in bed refusing to move. Addison is in there with her trying to get to her move. George is standing at the door watching) Addison: Okay, Dr. Bailey let's go. (She tries to get Bailey to sit up but Bailey just pushes away crying) Addison: Dr. Bailey I need you to turn on your back. I need you to push. Bailey: Leave me alone. Addison: Miranda. (to a nurse that is also in there) I can't let her go any longer. I'm gonna go tell Richard that he has to get us an O.R, okay? (Addison moves to leave through the door as George moves forward) George: Dr. Bailey, I'm surprised at you. I really thought...this is not how I thought you would do this. (Addison stops at the door) Addison: Dr. O'Malley I don't think that... George (ignores Addison and moves to Bailey's bedside): I truly... I expected more. Addison: George. (George takes a damp cloth and wipes it against Bailey's arm. Addison moves back into the room and watches. George leans down to talk to her) George: You're Dr. Bailey. (she cries a little) You don't hide from a fight. You don't give up. You strive for greatness. You Dr. Bailey, you are a doer. And ... I know your husband is not here and I know that there are a lot of things going on here that we have no control over. But this ... (he takes his hand and lifts up her chin for her to look at him directly) this ... we can do. Ok? (Bailey half nods, crying) Ok. (Addison starts moving to prepare Bailey while George helps Bailey sit up. He gets on the bed and sits behind her to support her) George: Let's have this baby. (OR where the gurney carrying James is now in place. Burke is there with his team as is Dylan) Burke (to Dylan): We're ready when you are. Dylan: We're good. Meredith? Meredith (looks scared): Yeah. Burke: I'm going to extend the wound. When I cut the bleeding is going to intensify. If we're going to save Mr. Carlson you have to pull the ammo out immediately. Dylan: But remember remove it while keeping it level as possible. (Meredith nods) Nice and easy. No quick movements. Level. Meredith: Right level. Burke (to Meredith): You ready? Meredith (teary-eyed): I uh ... ... Do I have a choice? Burke: You have to be ready. Meredith: Yeah I guess. Burke: Scalpel. Meredith: I guess I'm ready. (Burke starts cutting into Mr. Carlson) (Cristina enters OR 2 with Derek and walks up to them) Derek: How's it going out there Yang? Cristina: Everything's fine. Derek: How's the girl with bomb? Cristina: How's he doing? Derek: He's almost there. (to a scrubs nurse) Suction. Irrigate. That's great. (to Cristina) You didn't answer my question Yang. Cristina: Sir? Derek: How is the girl with the bomb? (Cristina looks conflicted for a second) Cristina: It's Meredith. (Derek turns to her startled) The girl with bomb is Meredith. (All of a sudden the heart monitor connected to Tucker flat lines) (O.R with Meredith, Burke and the O.R team) Burke: I'm good. She can go. Dylan: All right now Meredith. Wrap your hand around the nose cone. (Meredith looks like she isn't listening but just staring off to the side tear-eyed) Meredith. Burke: Grey. (she kinda snaps out of it a little but stares off again) Grey. (O.R 2 with Derek and Tucker. The heart monitor is still flat lined) Derek: Damn it we're losing him. (to a scrubs nurse) Push one of epi! Cristina: Thready pulse. Anesthesiologist: Epi in! Derek: Nothing. Okay get me a wet lap. Nurse: Here. Derek: We're gonna roll him on 3. Okay let me know when everyone's ready. Let's go. We gotta go. Come on! Let's go! (O.R with Meredith) Dylan: Meredith. (Meredith pulls down her scrubs mask) Meredith: George and Izzie shouldn't have to move out of the house. Dylan: No. You hear me. Meredith (to Dylan): You should make sure. Make sure that they, that they get to stay in the house. (Bailey giving birth in her patient room) Bailey: Augh! George: Push! Addison: A little bit more. I can see the top of the head. Bailey: I need stop. Need stop. (She falls back against George) George: Okay that was good. (He silently pulls his hand back and makes a pained expression as if she's broken his fingers) George: That was very good. That was- Okay. (He helps Bailey sit up right again) Are you ready? Addison: Ready? Bailey (nods): Okay. George: Push. Bailey: (she pushes) Oh god! (O.R with Tucker and Derek) Derek: Come on, come on, come on, come on. (Cristina is performing manual CPR) Cristina: Wide complex bradycardia. Derek: Push one more of epi and one more of atropine. Come on, come on. You can not do this Tucker! You can not quit on me! Come on, keep going. You can't quit! (O.R with Meredith. She's looking off to the side again and teary-eyed. A flash light is shone in her face) Burke: Grey. His pressure's dropping. Grey. (He shines the light again on her face) Meredith: I can't! No. I can't. This is crazy. Burke, you gonna go? You go. (to Burke and Dylan) Both of you should go. Burke: Nobody's dying today, Grey. Dylan: Meredith I want you to look at me. (She is staring at Burke) Look at me. (She turns her gaze to Dylan who is standing directly in front of her) I know this is bad. And I know that I'm this ass who's been yelling at you all day. So you pretend that I'm not. You pretend that I'm someone you like. Whatever you need. But you need to listen to me. (Meredith looks down and then looks back up again. The whole screen flashes white and there is no sound aside from Meredith's breathing and the heart monitor. She sees Derek standing in front of her) Meredith: I'm scared. Derek: I know. You can do this. It'll be over in a second. ... You can do this Meredith. Meredith: Ok. Derek: Ok. (The camera pans out and shows the two of them just standing in front of each other an empty O.R, identical to the opening scene of the previous episode. Gradually the real surroundings fade in and 'Derek' turns back into Dylan. Meredith starts to pull out her hand) Dylan (whispers): Gently. (Meredith looking very scared and teary-eyed begins to pull out the tip of the bomb) (OR with Tucker. Cristina is desperately performing CPR but the monitor is still flat-lined) (Bailey still in labor) Bailey (she's pushing): Augh! Addison: Good. Stop. Bailey: Stop? Addison: Stop. (George looks up at the mirror hanging against the wall so that Bailey and him can see the actual birth) George: Oh! Dr. Bailey I can see the top of his head! (Addison grins) He's got a lot of hair. Oh he's cute. Bailey: O'Malley? George: Yeah? Bailey: Stop looking at my va-jay-jay! (George looks away instantly) George: Yes ma'am. (OR where Tucker is still flat lined. Cristina has now stopped CPR but is squeezing an ambu bag. Derek looks panicked and rips off all his equipment off himself. He pushes people out of the way and starts CPR himself) (Bailey doing another push and obviously squeezing the life out of George's hand as shown by the expression on his face) (Tucker's OR where he is still flat lined. Everyone looks despondent. Derek backs away from Tucker slowly. All of sudden he thumps a fist hard against Tucker's chest. The monitor is still flat-lined) (Meredith slowly pulling out more of the bomb) (Tucker's OR. All of a sudden the heart monitor starts beeping again. His heart rate is rising up. Cristina nods at Derek) (Meredith crying a little as she hands the bomb very careful to Dylan who is holding his hands out stretched to receive it. She removes her hand) Dylan (whispers): You did good. (He starts moving slowly away from the operating table. Meredith also backs away as Burke starts operating on Mr. Carlson. Dylan heads out the door. Meredith slowly follows him. She walks out the door and stands in front of it watching. Dylan is a few steps away ready to pass it off to another Bomb Squad member who is standing ready to receive the bomb. All of a sudden there is a large explosion. Dylan is instantly blown up. The force is so strong that it flings Meredith backwards onto her back. It blows up various things in the hallway including nearby windows of adjacent OR's and scrub rooms. Burke's nor Derek's OR are affected. Meredith is caked in debris, blood and flesh. The other bomb squad member appears to have been blown up as well. The lights are all blown and everything seems dark and dank. Some pieces of paper are light in small fires. Meredith appears to be unconscious lying on the floor) (OR floor where Richard is on the phone at the nurses' station. Adele is there with him as is Alex) Richard: What the hell is happening down there? Who's coming up? Ok. (He hangs up the phone) Richard (to Adele): Come on sweetheart. (Adele nods and he walks to in front of an elevator as she follows) Richard (calls out): Alright people! They're coming up. (Hannah who was sitting in the waiting room lifts up her head. Alex moves to go tell Mrs. Carlson. A whole group of interns, doctors and nurses gather around Richard waiting for whoever is coming up the elevator. The elevator doors open revealing Burke and Derek standing in there. They walk up to the group) Burke: Derek. Derek: Preston. (They reach the group) Mindy: Dr. Burke. Is my husband um ... alive? Burke: Yes. Mindy: Is he ... gonna stay alive? (Burke notices Hannah standing at the nurses' station a little away from the large group. He points to Hannah) Burke: Thanks to that young lady over there he is. Mindy (crying happily shakes Burke's hand): Thank you. (She walks up to Hannah crying) Mindy: Thank you. Thank you. (She wraps Hannah in a tight hug. Richard nods at Burke and Burke walks off) (The group seems to have dispersed and Derek is walking around looking anxiously as if searching for someone. Richard and Adele notice and Richard walks up to him) Derek (anxious): Where is she? Richard: You had to be a cowboy. (Derek just looks around) Derek: Where, where is she? Richard: She's right here. Addison: Derek. You're okay. (Addison comes up walking fast and hugs Derek relieved) Oh, you're okay. (Derek still hugging Addison gives Richard a look. Adele notices) Adele (to Richard): That is not the 'she' he was asking for. (Female Showers of the locker room. George walks up and peers his head through the door. He sees Izzie and Cristina helping a shell shocked Meredith still in her scrubs and gown into the shower. She's still caked in blood and debris. They remove her scrubs cap and gown but she still has on her pants and shirt. George leaves. Cristina and Izzie help guide her under the shower head and begin washing her hair) (Burke and Cristina's apartment) (Cristina lies down on the bed.) Cristina: Burke, you awake? Burke? ... (Burke is lying across from her softly snoring) I love you too. (Burke continues to sleep and Cristina rolls over and closes her eyes) (Post-op room where Tucker is awake and sitting up right. Bailey is standing there holding their baby boy who is so cute) Bailey: This is our son. (She hands the boy over to Tucker) William George Bailey-Jones. Tucker (smiling): Hello. Hello my little man. Hello.(to Bailey) He's beautiful. (Bailey nods and leans in close and buries her head against Tucker) (Meredith's house) (Meredith is lying in bed looking out the window where it is pouring rain. A knock sounds on her door and Izzie comes in) Izzie: There's someone at the door for you. (Derek is standing in front of the door waiting for Meredith. He sighs. Meredith comes up and stands right in front of him.) Meredith (softly): Hey. (He stares at her looking very relieved) Derek: Hey. You almost died today. Meredith: Yeah. I almost died today. (He looks at her for a bit and then opens the front door to leave) Meredith: I can't ... (he steps back into the house) I can't remember our last kiss. All I could think about was I'm going to die today and I can't remember our last kiss. Which is pathetic, but the last time we were together and happy I ... want to be able to remember that. And I can't Derek. (he nods) I can't remember. Derek: I'm glad you didn't die today. (He goes to leave out the door. Meredith turns around to back upstairs. He stops her when he speaks standing at the doorway) Derek: It was a Thursday morning. You were wearing that ratty little Dartmouth t-shirt you look so good in. The one with the hole in the back of the neck. (he chuckles a little) You'd just washed your hair and you smelled like some kind of flower. I was running late for surgery. You said you were gonna see me later and you leaned to me, you put your hand on my chest and you kissed me. Soft. It was quick, kinda like a habit. You know, like we'd do it every day for the rest of our lives. You went back to reading the newspaper and I went to work. That was the last time we kissed. (He moves to leave again almost closing the door when Meredith speaks) Meredith: Lavender. (he steps back in) My hair smelled like lavender from my conditioner. Derek (nods): Lavender. (smiles) Huh. (He leaves and Meredith starts to head back up to her room) MVO: If this was your last day on Earth, how would you wanna spend it? -------------------------------------------------------------- transcribing credit to : Brandee http://www.tvtdb.com/greysanatomy/ Edited by oncetherewasaway, Jul 19 2009, 08:37 PM.



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